Dress shoulder pad



May is, 1948. I, sERBlN 2,441,910

DRESS SHOULDER BAD Filed Jan. 4, 1946 INVENTOR.

LEM/1.5 l SERBIA! 14 T TOIQNEYS Patented May 18,1948

DRESS SHOULDER PAD Lewis I. Serbin, Shaker Heights, Ohio, assignor toSerbin Sportswear 00., Cleveland, Ohio, a

general partnership Application January 4, 1946, Serial No. 639,023

1 Claim. 1

The invention relates to garment pads and to novel means for removablyretaining such pads at suitable locations in garments. While theinvention is obviously adapted to general use, it will be described withparticular reference to shoulder pads in womens clothing.

An object of the invention is to provide novel pad-retaining means whichis more or less permanently attached to the garment, but which permitsready insertion or removal of the pad.

Another object of the invention is to provide pad-retaining means asabove specified, which prevents accidental dislodgment of the pad whilethe garment is in use.

A further object of the invention is to provide a pad, and pad-retainingmeans, said means being of novel structure, and having a contourparticularly adapted to use in connection with a generally triangularshoulder pad.

Other objects and advantages will be apparent from a study of thefollowing specification in conjunction with the accompanying drawings,in which:

Fig. 1 is a bottom plan view of the pad-retaining means, hereinaftertermed, for convenience, a cover;

Fig. 2 is a sectional View taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1, and showinga pad in position within the cover;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary perspective view show- Fig. 4 is a sectionalView taken approximately on the line 44 of Fig. 3;

Fig. 5 is a plan view, somewhat reduced in size, and taken similarly toFig. 1, but showing a slightly modified embodiment of the invention.

Those skilled in the garment art are familiar with the fact that garmentpads should be removable to facilitate laundering and cleaningoperations, since the pads normally'absorb considerable moisture, andare subsequently dried only with difliculty, thereb greatly prolongingthe drying time of the garment as a whole, Presence of the pad alsointerferes with proper pressing or ironing operations. Variou means andmethods have been devised for permitting removal of the pad, but suchmethods and means have usually involved tacking the pad in place a bystitching which must be cut away to extricate the pad, or looselyretaining the pad in some sort of sheath or cover which often permitsthe pad to fall out while in use.

2 removal of the pad, but holds it securely in place while the garmentis in use.

Referring now to Figs. 1 to 3, wherein I show pad-retaining meansadapted to hold a shoulder pad for a wash dress,.the pad [0 is ofgeneral triangular contour in plan view, and is disposed within thecover II, also triangular in shape. The face l2 of the cover, which isnormally next to the garment, is continuous, but the exposed face isdivided by a slot l3, extending transversely of the face, and definedbetween two front wall portions l4 and Hi, The two faces are connectedalong their edges to enclose a pad receiving pocket to which access ishad through said slot. A terminal lip portion [4a of wall l4 overlaps acomplementary terminal lip portion l5a of wall Cover H is securelyattached to the shoulder portion l6 of the dress (Fig. 3) with theunslotted face l2 adjacent the dress, and with the slot [3 turneddownwardly so as to be readil accessible. By reason of the flexibilityof the cover material, the triangular pad l0 can be pushed inwardlythrough the slot so that its three corners nest within the respectivelycomplementary corners of the cover. Since the slot [3 is substantiallyparallel to a base edge I! of the triangular cover, at a positionintermediate said base edge and an opposed apex, the corner I8 of thepad remote from said base is securely trapped, and will not fall outaccidentally but must be extricated manually. The base edge I9 of thepad, which is substantially parallel to the slot I3, is wider in lateralextent than the slot l3 between the side stitchings 20, and this featureprevents accidental dislodgment of the pad. The cover is stitched alongthe dotted line 20, In the embodiment shown such stitching runs throughthe end edges of the lapped portions Ma and He.

Fig. 5 illustrates a slightly modified embodiment of the invention inwhich the cover is of segmental contour defined by two angularly spacedsides 22, 23, and a curved base 24. The structure is similar, in most ofits details, to the embodiment shown in Fig. 1, except that the base 24is curved, rather than straight, so as to conform to a curved line wherethe dress sleeve meets the shoulder. In this instance the contour of theenclosed pad 25 is similar in shape to the cover and has a curved sideparallel to the base 24.

I The slot 26 is similar in position and function to slot I3 alreadydescribed in connection with The means new to be described permits readyFigs. 1 to 4.

The cover is usually sewed to the inside face of the shoulder of thedress by tacking stitches at several points around the periphery of thecover. Thus the cover remains in place when the dress is washed andironed and causes no difficulty. The pad isremoved during such washingand ironing operations by bending or folding it sufficiently to slip itoutlthrough slot I 3.

What Ilaim is:

Pad-retaining means consisting of a pad cover" generally triangular inplan' view, and having two generally parallel faces permanentlyrunitedalong the three edges thereof .to define'apad of said cover, said padbase being longer than said slot whereby the base corners of saidtriangular pad extend laterally-beyond the ends of said slot into thecomers of said cover at opposite ends of said third edge so that saidpad is thereby retained in said cover, and tacking stitchessecuring'said cover'to a garment with saidiface of continuous icharacteragainst the garment.

LEWIS I. SERBIN.

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